Claim · model-written summary
The authors infer that phloem miRNA precursors may participate in long-distance signaling.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maximat0 - Gene
- miRNA precursorse0
- Outcome
- long-distance signalinge0
- Qualifier
- could play a rolee0
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e0“phloem miRNA precursors could play a role in long-distance signaling in plants”
t0“Cucurbita maxima”
Title
Identification of miRNA precursors in the phloem of Cucurbita maxima
Eugeny Tolstyko; Alexander Lezzhov; Andrey Solovyev PeerJ 2019. doi:10.7717/peerj.8269
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Observation The phloem transcriptome contained a subset of C. maxima pri-miRNAs distinct from abundant leaf pri-miRNA sequences.
- Observation PCR confirmed differential pri-miRNA accumulation between phloem exudate and leaf samples.
- Observation C. maxima pri-miR319a moved across the graft union through phloem.